When responding to situations in life, people must consider if what they are doing will benefit themselves or the people around them. In circumstances that demand quick thinking, people often can not form a concrete decision based on how little information and time they are given. In life, people must frequently try to do so through their daily battles with the people around them, in addition to themselves. People's hardships often affect what will compel them to respond, in many areas of a person's environment they are tied to certain deprivations in life, either privately or through another person. With those ties, come the understanding and compassion, these setbacks can help others gain a better insight into another person's difficulties. …show more content…
one that contains unimaginable circumstances as Elie tries to fight for his life as well as his father he, must make decisions based on what he believes will him in a way that he will be able to make it out of the camp alive. Through Eliezer's hardships, he must watch his father be beaten verbally and physically, he debates whether to react or not through all time but in the end, he comes to the conclusion that if he was to respond to any of the Kapos or other inmates he would face a greater pain. As a result, Elie continues on until he is pulled into a situation where he knows if he does not react his father will die. Elie gathers the courage to stop the men from throwing his father off the train and by doing so he saves his father's life from certain death. In relation to Elie's father being bullied so severely in my personal example, there is a lady named Cassidy that suffers at the hand of three of her peers as they verbally and physically bully her. Not only until I receive a threat and see how harshly Cassidy's is being impacted not until then do I feel compelled to tell my mom. By doing so not only then does Cassidy’s pain stop. I am sure that if Eliezer and the other inmates had a voice they could have stopped what was happening much sooner but because the rest of the world was silent so were they. If we as humans stay silent while chaos happens around us this not only damages ourselves but the people around us. If the victim stays silent then the perpetrator wins. The world can not stand by and let the villain win. We as Humans will not stay